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A filmmaker since the early 1960s, Wertmuller
took world cinema by storm with her politically charged films of
the 1970s, including "The Seduction of Mimi", "Love and Anarchy"
and "Swept Away." Her Oscar nomination came in 1977 for "Seven
Beauties".
"Italy mourns the passing of Lina Wertmuller, a director who,
with her class and unmistakable style, left an everlasting mark
on our and the world's cinema," Culture Minister Dario
Franceschini said in a statement.
Wertmuller received a lifetime achievement award from the Oscars
film academy in 2019 and took advantage of the occasion to call
out Hollywood for tending to favour men.
"She would like to change the name Oscar to Anna," actress
Isabella Rossellini said as she translated Wertmuller’s
acceptance speech from Italian to English.
She reached her critical peak in the 1970s, after which her
public profile faded, although she continued to make films for
many years. Her last movie, "Too Much Romance ... It's Time for
Stuffed Peppers," starring F. Murray Abraham and Sophia Loren,
was released in 2004.
In an interview with Reuters at the time, Wertmuller said her
artistic vision had remained strong though she had failed to
find a U.S. distributor for her films for a decade.
"Even American artists are terrorized by market forces," she
said. "If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped."
(Reporting by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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